my name is brandon dillard and i'm the manager of historic interpretation here at monticello. might recognize my voice because in previous live streams i'm usually the guy behind the camera and i'm reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while we're talking to our first person interpreter/actor bill barker who portrays thomas jefferson. we wanted to do something a little bit different this week. given the national conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. monticello has been closed for months. we reopen this weekend due to a global pandemic and in recent weeks in the united states, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different form of racial injustice, whether it's racially motivated police violence or racially motivated monuments and memories. it's a conversation that we must engage in and working here at monticello, we are a site of memory and monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. today we decided to have

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. >>> bill barker and brandon dillard, monticello's he manager -- the conversation is driven by viewer questions and draws on mr. barkers's career on independence hall. thomas jefferson's monticello

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